Thereafter, I’m always on the lookout for the beautiful 54th-birthday wordings on banners, billboards, advertisements, etc, and thinking how I can acquire something with those words, until I came across a fb ad. In particular, the shirts caught my eye..
I need to get the running singlet and the finisher tee!! In fact, I need to get the finisher tee with the ‘54km’ words!!
Catch is, I need to participate in this Run for Singapore 2019 online run.. But is this even a legit event?? I’ve never heard of online runs before, never heard of spacebib the organizer of online runs, and to pay almost $50/pax for the 2 shirts seemed a lil’ extravagant. After mulling over it for a few days, I decided to juz do it!!
Trying to jio some buddies to run & walk the 54km with me wasn’t easy.. no one expressed any interest even after I shared it with more than 10 persons in a few group chats. 4 days before the closing date for registration when I was prepared to sign up even if it’s all by myself, my most ardent supporter & hubby Victor said he’ll do the 54km together with me!! Yaaayyy!!! 🥳🎉🎉
So I signed us up 5 August afternoon, and on that evening itself, we had our very first walk instead of our usual 5km-run!! Prior to that I can’t remember the last time we walked.. but we walked that evening bcoz Victor was still recovering from a flu and a sinus infection. He couldn’t breathe as normally and could neither swim nor jog.. Eww.. Victor was unwell yet obliged to walk/run 54km with me in the month of August!! How sweet right? 💕💕
We logged 6.3km on our first walk. 2 evenings later, we did another walk and logged another 8.3km!! The task-oriented monster in Victor emerged thoroughly.. he suggested we walk to Coney Island and back on National Day morning! So we did, and logged 17km!! Then during our walk from Coney Island, we casually talked about Singapore’s very last kampong, and maybe we could walk there too.. And you know what, 3 days later on Hari Raya Haji holiday morning, we walked to Kampong Lor Buangkok and back, and logged 20km!! 😱😱 I felt like my legs didn’t belong to me anymore, and could break any moment...😨😨 I don’t think I’ve ever walked so much before!!😓😓
By then, we had received our run singlet in the mail. Just in time for us to wear it for our final run!!
There, we did it!! 54km in 10 days!! 💪🏻💪🏻✌🏻✌🏻
In addition to the tees, we also received a commemorative coin and finisher medal! Oh yes, we also got some reusable bamboo straws as extras, complete with its own washing brush!
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